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单词 supercool
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supercooladj.n.

Brit. /ˌsuːpəˈkuːl/, /ˌsjuːpəˈkuːl/, /ˈsuːpəkuːl/, /ˈsjuːpəkuːl/, U.S. /ˈˌsupərˈˌkul/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: super- prefix, cool adj.
Etymology: < super- prefix + cool adj. Compare earlier supercooled adj., supercooling n.
A. adj.
1.
a. In literal sense. Very or extremely cool or cold; that is, or keeps a person or thing at, a low temperature.
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1915 Boston Sunday Globe 25 July 41/7 (advt.) A super-cool Filene pure silk undergarment.
1936 Boys' Life July 49 Your troop will find summer Scouting even more thrilling when outfitted with this swanky, super-cool summer Scout hat.
1975 Changing Times Apr. 4 Resolve to use air-conditioning sparingly and avoid supercool temperatures.
2010 A. Rewi Frommer's New Zealand (ed. 6) 466 All ages gather in the sunny courtyard and the super-cool interior [of the restaurant].
b. Of a temperature: close to absolute zero. Also: relating to or involving such a temperature, cryogenic.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adjective]
coolc1430
coldc1500
within oneself (itself, etc.)1518
cool-headed1684
present to oneself1692
possesseda1698
self-restrained1700
self-collecteda1711
cool (cold) as a cucumbera1732
self-possessing1732
self-regulating1755
cool-brained1765
self-possessed1766
self-restraining1777
self-disciplined?1791
self-controlling1796
self-repressed1814
self-controlled1822
self-contained1838
self-repressing1849
unimpulsive1856
posé1858
downbeat1953
cucumber-cool1955
supercool1965
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate
gildenc1225
prime1402
rare1483
grand1542
holy1599
pre-excelling1600
paregal1602
classic1604
of (the) first rate1650
solary1651
first rate1674
superb1720
tip-top1722
tip-top-gallant1730
swell1819
topping1822
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826
No. 11829
brag1836
A11837
A No. 11838
number one1839
awful1843
bully1851
first class1852
class1867
champion1880
too1881
tipping1887
alpha plus1898
bonzer1898
grade A1911
gold star1917
world-ranking1921
five-star1936
too much1937
first line1938
vintage1939
supercolossal1947
top1953
alpha1958
fantabulous1959
beauty1963
supercool1965
world-class1967
primo1973
1965 U.S. Patent 3,192,766 1 Most materials do not exhibit the same behavior at supercool temperatures as they do at ambient temperatures.
1979 Sci. News 4 Aug. 87/2 One application of a cryogenic maser lies in the field of experimental gravitation. Such a super-cool clock could be put on a space probe to help in the search for gravity waves.
1997 M. Gardner Relativity Simply Explained 173 Each ball is coated with niobium. This allows each spinning ball, at a supercool temperature slightly above absolute zero, to remain suspended in a vacuum.
2003 C. D. Bryant Handbk. Death & Dying I. 787 Stored at a supercool temperature, the person in cryonic suspension will theoretically ‘keep’ indefinitely.
2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Very cool (cool adj. 8); (of a thing) extremely attractive, impressive, stylish, etc.; (of a person) very composed, calm, fashionable, or sophisticated.
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1962 Billboard Music Week 22 Dec. 16/3 The bossa nova that they heard..was the super-cool Brazilian variety that makes a masterpiece of understatement.
1968 Film Q. Autumn 61/1 The super-cool hero goes grimly about the business of unscrewing the machine.
1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 131 The pimp style was a supercool style that was much admired or envied.
1978 Hot Car July 91/3 They were super-cool amongst the sixties surfing set in the USA.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 2 Feb. (Travel section) 15 Until very recently I was a nonskier... I didn't like the supercool image of skiers.
2006 A. Summers One Train Later xiv. 212 You guys were great, wow, I really like your music, supercool, where do you get that sound?
B. n.
That which is supercool (sense A. 2); an extremely cool person, phenomenon, attitude, or demeanour; (with the) supercool people collectively.
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1975 Radio Times 23 Aug. 11/4 James Coburn was the nicest of all those Bond-type supercools.
1981 Times 22 July 11/2 That style had itself been borrowed from younger Jamaicans, and the super cool they affected.
1983 D. M. Wardlaw Preaching Biblically 78 You see the supercool and the very uptight. You see experimental dudes and revolutionary cats.
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 262 This elegant two-storey steel structure..blows away Knysna's hippy cobwebs with a breath of upmarket supercool.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

supercoolv.

Brit. /ˌsuːpəˈkuːl/, /ˌsjuːpəˈkuːl/, /ˈsuːpəkuːl/, /ˈsjuːpəkuːl/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈkul/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: super- prefix, cool v.1
Etymology: < super- prefix + cool v.1 In later use after supercooling n.
1. transitive. To make exceptionally cold; (Physics) to subject (a substance) to supercooling (supercooling n. 2), to make supercooled.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > subject to supercooling
superfuse1657
supercool1867
undercool1895
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > low temperature physics > subject to supercooling [verb (transitive)]
superfuse1657
surfuse1863
supercool1867
superfuse1880
undercool1895
1867 U.S. Patent 60,934 3 By this long transit of air through this pipe K, you super-cool it, and deliver it into this room A as cold..as the air is in the chamber A, thereby saving a great amount of your ice and freezing-mixture.
1883 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 44 151 The specimen of black phosphorus became white when fused, and remained white if cooled suddenly, but if super-cooled it again became black.
1959 B. Chalmers Physical Metall. vi. 265 The liquid of composition O is supercooled until a nucleus in one of the phases forms.
1976 Nature 22 July 323/2 The cell contents are readily supercooled.
2006 Analog June 96/1 The antiparticles, protons and positrons, were mated, and the resulting antihydrogen super-cooled for storage.
2. intransitive. Physics. To undergo supercooling.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > low temperature physics > undergo supercooling [verb (intransitive)]
supercool1899
undercool1969
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > undergo supercooling
supercool1899
undercool1969
1899 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 3 441 The writer melted the oxime, allowed it to supercool one or two degrees in the air or bath, then immersed it in the Beckmann cooling bath.
1959 B. Chalmers Physical Metall. vi. 244 When a metal sample is sufficiently subdivided into isolated drops, some supercool to the extent of about 0·2TE before nucleation occurs.
1975 Rev. Mod. Physics 47 454/1 The AB transition [in liquid 3He] strongly supercooled the first time the transition was made from temperatures considerably above T0.
2001 Nature 5 Apr. p. ix/3 Most liquids crystallize on cooling, but some supercool to form an amorphous solid, or glass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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